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but it. didn't get them and they took the yeah and that is out there in this i'm up to a mile i'm going down and i think i'm going to do a mile and a lot about how the next drawing aren't i meant but i don't get to. see them now down my so out of town a lot of i'm out of my body full of forgotten. that that was out of my depth yeah and i could see that as i asked by the way to liam come out and actually i myself. have been asked that they do. things about the topic so yeah. i did it i thought be about deep in the last and well if you film in the little siad.
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and with the. her. i was. so critical i have to walk introduce my own body to have a good body image. over the long found in self in the public mind my b.b.q. ms brown and the spokesman for handicapped children. mike.
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over the years alvin will make appearances on telephones across the country. going. live. not better than other people. because a lot of havoc of course. but people get it wrong when they look at alvin law and thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my these are my parents too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill that's not what it is but i do think.
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thank you i thought that i was going to have to be a nine. i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun pair of my friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment. have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid. and i want to. one night stand but that i'd never achieved she was wearing glasses maybe notice.
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i found my now why you when she was sixteen. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not still pretty. for most the little miters getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. louise mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just physically to get behind the wheel and do our best. in the. little bit remember the good be looking guy that played the drums with us and remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't.
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thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to wear it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go oh thank you boston micros think you are now why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. i
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still travel around all the airports checking into hotels eat bad food drive in everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about give it up so i mean i can get on a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a mundane job that you to five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children in my shoes when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the marcus anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film.
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i want to look at myself. funny come on nobody's perfect change as if. it changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors worth fighting so was really big time we were fighting i think for me for also as a mentor miters but also for the public some say. the energy changed. legal fund laws all logical for you nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his
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documentary on thundered in. the east of china for media and for media heist i know that i spent time you can dodge bullets we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to our. keep. us up. thank the us to get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although. i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugs are you nervous graciousness and intelligence. and her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i
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was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limit i was kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alters sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights that and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern started mabyn we knew that she would be ok.
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and i only best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something that her mother wanted to be and she was very. humorous to us.
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financial survival guide i don't fly i've caught up with futures. i suppose some of my ex in the future crocker. i don't think that. israel is trying to smallpox destroy barcarolle so i don't think that they believe. are also the cure both. seemed at the time fortunately many user of ems in the united states are seem to paranoid about you're on the roads. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the
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future held when i saw him from out of there with two arms and. two hands and five little fingers on which. i didn't care what brand he was at all or if it was he. was just the most tremendous feeling my son. would know. you know it back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching what it called teach him to play frisbee impeachment or throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a career is do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you don't need arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms don't realize that.
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they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. as big he was a little that. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice he's a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received
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a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard louis being very well and kind to a christmas card and come down to it alone i think the spark reignited even if the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and busted flies. i was floating on a cloud. and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact. and then he moved down in the been together since. politico did up an understanding with each other it's really weird you know but we cannot it from there you go i wouldn't know what i'm told will get what you don't about but i now try to weigh what you cannot go to not of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know but the little mode if you do pick up on it or that it was i was sick then you know it really really fascinating where we
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communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it with that we wanted. our member thinking twenty years old divorced god a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making a found a session about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. friends who
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tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days that was the beginning of the joy that ended in that ring going on in the still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still write. he had lighted his letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option you know me. i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else who's getting better and. it's getting better. where there's
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a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teachers second and then i had. and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . in australia. with the british company that bought and still is co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer agreement the company wanted the case who in germany where it's never successfully been sued but the supreme victorian. frame court today dismissed that application this was an application boy the company that might lead him on the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she
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wishes to have it done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. a grin tells a defendant's grins how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end the still was a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when i couldn't tell didn't post sent we had to get up and fight aids day every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't really know now then the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off really dramatically transform the rose law grown into refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement a two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years that i know it's because you only surety this your first chance to get out
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a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they did pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge it. comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it is the n.h. was a longish. size and just them and us adults is even. i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into song and chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court for the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me now family no. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in one
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hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets families tosin a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want to rivera show they they kill two thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continues to deny most the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an
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acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat lafferty unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little mind injured babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.
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and that it was quite likely. that she had to get that all. the money at the one the money the two. that it. didn't get the money and that is at the will it is i'm going to a model of the island i think i'm going to once i'm not doing a lot about how the now rolling so are in summit but i don't get. them out of them out so out of town a lot of the model people. that i would have. asked by the way to really. get that they did. it was about the truth
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so yeah. about the people that i sat on all of you filming the little siad. you. i. know you don't accept the story just as far as the right to be a little bit. loose heat. over television like the receipt. i don't bust boy who loves me is. one of them somebody doesn't know
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it's a mask you never know what's happening and what they're shooting with the birds. and mistrust the tibetans are. sad but it. was. just because of that interview but i'm addicted to sit with your middle class and muslims while he's going to win the. video agency robson a obtains footage of residents and can do is pop into an afghanistan protesting
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against the constant bombings by coalition and afghan forces. it's my belief that the terrorist who killed five people in last year's westminster bridge attack has been.

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